Bendigo migrants and asylum seekers to benefit from mental health and wellbeing grants

An image from a 2015 exhibition of works by local Karen, Karenni and Afghani women showing the distance some travel to reach Australia. See that story at bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/3200396/a-case-for-refugees/

Two local refugee and migrant programs are set to benefit from mental health funding grants announced on Wednesday.

Bendigo Community Health Services would receive $80,000 for the Learning to Live Well project, which empowered local refugee and migrant communities including the large Karenni population.